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From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Alfred batadv-vis json conformance
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:01:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131002160106.GA1939@neomailbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131002130548.GA24077@pandem0nium>

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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:05:48PM +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> > I'm also wondering if label and gateway could have more meaningful
> > names? TQ and host? Also, is TT the best?
> 
> Hm, that is a good question. We also have the batman v with new metrics
> coming up, I'm not sure how to handle these (maybe Antonio has some
> idea?). It is not the TQ-value in the label after all, but some kind of
> ETX-converted value (255/TQ if i remember correctly).

I think the ETX stuff comes from OLSR (but I don't know the details).

I agree with Simon that we should find a generic name (e.g. metric ?) but I am
not sure we can represent this value in a "algorithm-generic" fashion (and maybe
we don't want to).

> 
> Maybe we can change the names to:
>  * for neighbors: router->nexthop
>  * TT: "gateway" -> "client", "router" -> "node", maybe also change TT to clients?

TT is specific to the mechanism we use to announce clients.
Moving to the generic "clients" could also be ok.

> > 
> > I would like suggestions and comments from others with more experience
> > with json. Is the basic structure O.K. Are there better names to use?
> > 
> > There is also the issue of can we change the format of the current
> > output. Is it considered an ABI? Should I add a third format string
> > which can be passed with -f to produce true json, and leave the old
> > format as is, for backward compatibility?
> 
> As explained above, I'd like to keep the old format, so a third format
> string should be used. It would be nice (if possible) to consider BATMAN V
> at this point too to avoid adding many more formats in the future, but
> generally I'm okay with adding new formats.
> 

I have to think about what batman v may require. But I don't see snything
special right now.

Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-02 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-01 20:26 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Alfred batadv-vis json conformance Andrew Lunn
2013-10-02 13:05 ` Simon Wunderlich
2013-10-02 13:36   ` Andrew Lunn
2013-10-06  8:35     ` Nicolás Echániz
2013-10-07  9:00       ` Andrew Lunn
2013-10-02 16:01   ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2013-10-03  6:09     ` Martin Hundebøll
2013-10-03  8:11       ` Andrew Lunn
2013-10-03  8:22         ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-03  8:53           ` Andrew Lunn
2013-10-03  9:00             ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-10-03  9:05               ` Andrew Lunn

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